Tyler Casselman

San Francisco, CA, United States

Member since October 19, 2012

Tyler is a freelance iOS developer and architect with 8 years of experience in the mobile industry. He has experience with REST-based APIs as well as client and server Facebook integration, and has implemented tools and services with PHP and Ruby on Rails back-end technologies.

...thing I've built is FarmVille for the iPhone, which was showcased by Steve Jobs at 2010 WWDC.

Employment

iOS Engineer

Casselman Consulting

2012 - PRESENT

Build several iOS apps for various clients. My clients are all very happy with my work.

Technologies: iOS

Senior Software Engineer

Zynga

2010 - 2012

Full stack engineer on Cityville, Hometown, and Forestville for iPhone and iPad. Implemented several server side features in PHP that integrated with Zynga’s back-end services.

Launched FarmVille for the iPhone, which was showcased by Steve Jobs at 2010 WWDC. Implemented several client side features that utilized UIKit as well as cocos2D. Integrated client with the existing PHP back-end. Challenges encountered included supporting an extremely large amount of content and optimizing load times.

Sole inventor on a patent relating to business logic synchronization between client and server that is filed with the US Patent office.

Technologies: iOS, cocos2D, UIKit, PHP

Software Engineer

Tactel

2009 - 2010

Lead developer on a map based iPhone application that utilized CoreData.

Graphics/OpenGL ES developer for a 3D Android application.

Developer on multiple Blackberry applications.

Technologies: iOS, CoreData, OpenGL, Android, Blackberry

Software Engineer

Airplay Network

2006 - 2009

Designed and implemented real-time client/server mobile applications in JME.